Academy of Evil

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This is a school that teaches their students how to be better villains. There will be courses on mayhem, extortion, use of powers for evil, money laundering and many other topics. Usually the school will be a strictly evil institution that is staffed entirely with Sadist Teachers and directed by the Principal / Big Bad. Despite this rigid order much of the rules have two big caveats: Might Makes Right, and the teachers won't punish cheating— rather, they'll punish getting caught because it's a sign of sloppy work.

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Presumably, such a school is funded by graduates tithing back money to the principal, though he or she may get funding from parents who enroll their children because they want their kids to follow their evil jackboot-steps. Then again, the school may act as a talent agency / crime ring and hire out students as mercenaries, or use them to commit crimes.

Judge Dredd: The Dark Judges are shown to have taken over their version of the Academy of Law during the destruction of their planet to teach the trainees how to best execute citizens.

Xavier's School for Exceptionally Wayward Youth in X Men Noir is a reform school... but Professor Xavier taught his students how to be better criminals rather than actually reforming them. He insists this was a ploy to gain their trust so they would gradually open up to him and therapy could begin in earnest. In reality, he was developing and studying them to prove his theory that sociopathy is the next stage of human behavioral evolution.

In mainstream X-Men continuity, Emma Frost used to be headmistress of the Massachusetts Academy — a front for the Hellfire Club that produced the Hellions, rivals to the then-Xavier Institute student body, the New Mutants. When Emma had her HeelFace Turn, the Massachusetts Academy became a Superhero School, the front for Generation X.

In a later New Mutants title, the Hellions were another "house" within the Xavier Institute, but still kind of villain-y and rivals to the New Mutants team.

In the Marvel Universe, any institution run by Taskmaster is this - he first came to prominence running schools for henchmen of other supervillains. Later, during Dark Reign, he was in charge of The Initiative for a while. He's so good at what he does that the government sometimes hires him to train their operatives, including a replacement Captain America.

St. Hadrian's Finishing School for Girls in Batman Incorporated, which is run by the international Terrorists Without a Cause group Leviathan and trains its pupils to become spies, assassins and depraved seducers. After Batman and an undercover Stephanie Brown took it out, it was restarted by Spyral, and trained its pupils to become spies, assassins, and depraved seducers for good causes, under the new headmistress Kathy Kane (the Silver Age Batwoman, recently retconned back into continuity).

In Black Hood Comics #9, criminal mastermind Markov started a school for (adult) criminals, teaching them how to fight barehanded, how to evade police capture, etc. He did so out of a simple desire to improve the local criminal landscape, having found the crooks he'd met up to that point clumsy and stupid.

In Deadly Class students are the sons and daughters of fine important figures such as KGB/CIA/FBI agents, Gang Bangers, Neo Nazis, African Warlords, and South American Drug Cartels just to name a few.

Star Wars: Doctor Aphra: At the end of the second arc, Aphra ultimately sells the Rur crystal to the "Shadow University". Though they are not shown doing anything particularly evil, the fact that they were included on the attendance list to Aphra's Auction of Evil and the fact that the morally grey Aphra says she admires them imply that they are this. They also threaten to expose Aphra's cheating and get her doctorate revoked again if she does not sell the Rur crystal to them.

Film

From the Austin PowersVerse; Dr. Evil did not spend six years at Evil Medical School to be called "Mister", thank you very much.

Royal Pain plans to turn Sky High (2005) into one of these, turning the students, faculty and alumni into babies and then raising them anew as supervillains.

St. Trinian's is more an academy of anarchy, but there are classes in various forms of lucrative crime and how to avoid arrest in foreign countries. The students and teachers do seem to be chaotic neutral rather than actually evil.

Durmstrang, a downplayed example, where people are taught the Dark Arts instead of Defense Against the Dark Arts, has a slight reputation of being this. Grindelwald, Dumbledore's old arch-nemesis, comes from here. We do meet Durmstrang alumni who are definitely not evil and take a hard stand against evil (Viktor Krum comes to mind right away) and this isn't shown as being very odd. Andeven Durmstrang had to draw the line and expel Gellert Grindelwald, where a school that really played this trope straight would probably have nurtured him.

The Death Eaters tried to make Hogwarts this in Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, when it's being run by the Death Eaters—they change the curriculum to make the Dark Arts and Muggle "Studies" mandatory, making the curriculum all-evil, all the time. It doesn't work on the students except for House Slytherin.

Slytherin House has this reputation even earlier in the series; nearly all of the Death Eaters came from Slytherin.

In Rogue Sorcerer, the Tower is an academy for Sorcerers who use blood magic to control murderous demons.

Played with in Discworld with the Assassins' Guild School, which while it does still teach the art of assassination, is also considered a prestigious academy for gentlemen and, as of recently, ladies. Another Academy of Evil is discussed in Sourcery, though it may not actually exist:

Of course, all Grand Viziers talk like that all the time. There's probably a school somewhere.

Dracula is mentioned to have studied at the 'Scholomance' - presumably the same one from the folklore section above. Freda Warrington's unofficial sequel has the now-abandoned Scholomance play a big role in the plot.

Bekinsop's Academy for the Daughters of Gentlefolk in Blonde Genius by J.T. Edson.

Battle School from Ender's Game is on the very dark side of morally ambiguous. On the one hand, they're training commanders to attack an alien race that once attacked them. On the other hand they plan the complete genocide of the aliens and consider students killing one another an acceptable part of their training.

The eventual sequels cast Battle School in a different light, showing that while it's quite deliberately teaching "evil values" to many of the students, it's doing so for their weaknesses: the institution was founded to deal with far more important and long-term problems than an unfortunate kerfluffle with an alien race, and a number of its students were destined even before their enrollment to become problems. Battle School is actually finishing them to look really good to their sponsors upon graduation... and then fail miserably. (And in the meantime, using them to help finish the other students in other directions.)

The dark elven city of Menzoberranzan from Forgotten Realms has one, most elaborated on in R. A. Salvatore's Drizzt novels (but also appearing in Elaine Cunningham's Liriel novels and the War of the Spider Queen series). Tier-Breche (usually simply called "The Academy") is divided into three sub-schools, Melee-Magthere (for warriors), Sorcere (for wizards) and Arach-Tinillith (for the clergy of Lolth). Considering its two functions are to train the students to lethal efficiency in their particular discipline and firmly induct them into a Religion of Evil, it's a very scary place. Since the main hero Drizzt is a warrior, his education mostly takes place in Melee-Magthere - and it's ripe with backstabbing, Klingon Promotion and things like using children to bait monsters for students to practice on. And yet Drizzt's mentor Zaknafaien adamantly insists that he goes there, because apparently Sorcere is even worse.

Max Thunderman wants to go to one of these, but for now he's keeping up The Masquerade in a suburban public school. And since that's the whole premise of the show...

There are two that show up in Charmed, both called simply The Academy. They focus on turning humans into demons.

The Outer Limits (1995) featured a school where students were implanted with a mind control chip. One of the classes featured assassination as a viable business practice for getting rid of the competition.

The Academy of Evil, from Crash Twinsanity, a private school that literally teaches students to be evil, for the sake of being evil. The series' antagonist, Dr. Neo Cortex, studied here, while his niece was thrown out and had to continue her studies at the Evil Public School.

The Institute of Evil, Nether Academy - the setting of Disgaea 3. It's literally a school in hell, where demons go to learn how to be properly evil (By their generally awkward standards). Also doubles as a Bizarro World, since honor students are the ones who never attend class or do their homework, while delinquents maintain 100% attendance (even though the teachers rarely bother showing up), and give THEMSELVES homework (which they always complete) since the teachers won't. They also pick up litter. Oddly, the so-called "delinquents" are the only ones who ever get to graduate from the academy, since they run off the same standards as any other school in that regard... In fact, the previously mentioned delinquents are the first ones to ever graduate, which amounts to be Kicked Upstairs. You see, the Academy's objective is to make the students remain paying the tuition for all the eternity.

Scholomance in World of Warcraft. It's a school for necromancy that trains aspiring cultists and minions of the Scourage.

The Sith Academies on Korriban and Malachor V in Knights of the Old Republic and The Sith Lords, respectively. The former encourages backstabbing and killing your fellow students and even teachers to gnaw your way to the top.

The Korriban academy has been rebuilt and reestablished by the time of Star Wars: The Old Republic. It's not notably less evil than it used to be, as Sith Warrior and Inquisitor player characters can attest. For starters, it's possible (even encouraged) for each of them to be the Sole Survivor of their training cadre.

Metal Gear 2: Solid Snake: Big Boss runs a child soldier military, outright declaring his pride in creating a cycle of retaliation and death that will ensure the darkest parts of war survive to the modern ages. But given the sheer level of his charisma and military prowess in building his PMC, and the capabilities of his archrivals, it's implied that he was training up the next generation of Millitaries Sans Frontieres, an international infiltration and shock trooper army, to harass and terrorize the world whenever it got complacent enough to send good soldiers into the meat grinder for fun and profit, or when secret organizations attempt to enslave the world again.

Byrgenwerth College in Bloodborne. It was their decision to crack open the Pthumerian tombs under Yharnam that started the city's descent into madness, and it was a demented former student that started the blood craze. Their decision to keep investigating alternate ways of understanding the Pthumerians' mastery of magic aside from Old Blood (the Fishing Hamlet massacre, research on Insight) brought them into conflict with the Healing Church, and spelled doom for everyone involved.

The School of Mensis is a heretical offshoot of the Healing Church, itself splintered from Byrgenwerth. It is, bar none, the most malevolent faction of the game, having no issue with kidnapping people to serve as fodder for their rituals. Their land has been twisted into an expanse of mountains bearing countless screaming faces, rising above a sea of fog. Their headquarters serve as a prison for an Eldritch Abomination and an incubator for another.

Choice Of Games offers Grand Academy for Future Villains where you're attending the school that teachers evil masterminds and would-be despots, and is aware of the genres they're being to sent to.

Web Comics

EVIL (the Elite Villain's Institute of Learning) is a combination of this and Wacky College.

Deville Academy, in the Whateley Universe, is a school that takes in poor, young delinquents... and turns them into the best thieves, spies, and killers on the planet. Except for those mutant supervillains.

The SCP Foundation frequently has to deal with SCPs created by Alexylva University, a mind control-obsessed organization from an Alternate Universe where the Roman empire lasted to the modern age.

In Twig, an academic organization known simply as "The Academy" is the driving force behind an empire spanning a full third of the known world, specializing in biological modification with an eye on warfare.

Western Animation

In Teen Titans, there was the H.I.V.E. (not this one), which originally trained super-villains to work as mercenaries, its star pupils being Jinx, Gizmo, and Mammoth, used by Slade in a very early episode. Later, in the third season, the school played a much bigger part of the plot, with Brother Blood as the Big Bad of the storyline and headmaster of the school. After Blood's defeat, the school was defunct, but Jinx, Gizmo, and Mammoth formed a team called the H.I.V.E. Five (which eventually got six members) that eventually joined the Brain's Brotherhood of Evil.

Earthworm Jim feature a humorous advertisement for a school for villains, showing a teacher pointing at the black board and reading, "Ah...ha...ha...ha...ha..."

Hexley Hall in Sofia the First is shown to have rather naughty students that pick on any non-wizards.

Carmen Sandiego has V.I.L.E. Academy, where said villainous organization trains new generations of super criminals. The title character was a student there, having been raised there from infancy, but escaped and went rogue after realizing they were the bad guys.

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